19The Dog on the KennelFreer Gallery of ArtAccession no: 1898.219 State: 2/2 |  |
| Collection credit: | Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Image credit: | Photo © Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution |
| Provenance: | Francis Seymour Haden (1818-1910), London, T. W. Dewing acted as agent for Charles Lang Freer (1856-1919), Detroit, MI, 1898 (receipts, 7 and 9 November 1898); bequeathed to the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1919. |
| Paper size: | 110 x 133 mm |
| Plate mark size: | 71 x 90 mm |
| Note on size: | wide margin |
| Paper trimmed to pmk?: | no |
| Colour of the paper: | cream |
| Paper type (wove, laid, Japan etc): | Japanese wove |
| Note on the paper: | Eastern paper: torinoko, even distribution, little debris |
| Tab?: | no |
| Watermarks: | none |
| Medium: | etching and drypoint |
| Ink colour: | black |
| Additional work on the print, e.g. in pencil: | no |
| Print tone: | faint traces of plate tone along right side and on ground beneath kennel |
| Note on foul biting: | minor, scattered; most along plate edges |
| Print note: | lines that provide shading and texture to wall above sleeping dog are either partly scraped out or incompletely inked (note by Seymour Haden [see Notes on inscriptions field] implies that those lines were removed); several fine drypoint lines above zig-zag shading at lower left and to right of pole at right side of kennel (these lines are faintly visible in Kennedy illustration) |
| Whistler's sign on plate: | 'Whistler' |
| Inscriptions by Whistler on the plate: | no |
| Inscriptions by others on the plate: | no |
| Whistler's signature on paper: | no |
| Inscriptions by Whistler on the paper: | no |
| Tab signed/inscribed: | no |
| Note on the tab: |
| Printer's signature (e.g. Goulding): | no |
| Notes on inscriptions: | M. Smith records previous existence of inscription "S.H. work erased" in graphite on etching's margin. It was erased 1924.03.29. |
| Collector's mark: | no |
| Dealers' stock nos: | no |
| Misc inscriptions by others: | 'W8 - 2nd [underscored] State' on verso by C. L. Freer. |
| Source of information: | Whistler Etchings Project and museum records |
| ID: | K0180104 |
All inscriptions are in graphite pencil unless otherwise stated.